Gill Haynes made her comment during an NCMA conference in London last week called 'Diversity: Making the difference'. She said, 'If we're going to reach the six per cent target of men in childcare by 2004 - how bizarre this is as a concept - we have to go back to the issue of pay and conditions.'
Mrs Haynes spoke after a talk by Trefor Lloyd of the organisation Working With Men on why few men work in childcare. He told delegates that while attitudes towards the competence of fathers looking after their own children were changing, there was still inconsistency in feelings about male nursery nurses.
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